Jul 28, 2021 Posted by newlife007

Checking Your TPM Version on Windows 10

Checking Your TPM Version on Windows 10 Introduction A new Windows version is on the horizon and in the requirements for Windows 11 we see TPM 2.0. The question being asked is what version of TPM do I have and where do I find it. Get The Information First, check if you have a TPM chip is to run the get-tpm command via Windows PowerShell. To do this, type PowerShell in the Start menu search bar.... read more

Apr 24, 2021 Posted by newlife007

How To Encrypt USB Drives on Windows 10 with Veracrypt

How To Encrypt USB Drives on Windows 10 with Veracrypt Introduction In continuing on with protecting your data and using encryption of USB external drives we will cover another open source program VeraCrypt. Install Download VeraCrypt 1.24 Update 7 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/. Click Next Click I accept and click Next Click Next Click Install Click Ok Click Finish. You may get a popup... read more

Mar 12, 2021 Posted by newlife007

How To Encrypt USB Flash Drives on Windows 10 with DiskCryptor

How To Encrypt USB Flash Drives on Windows 10 with DiskCryptor Introduction With the popularity of USB Flash drives and USB external storage for portability and ease of use there is also to ease to lose them and also lose your files. With the loss there is always the chance that someone will end up with your data. But, if you encrypt your drives it is no so easy to get to your data. In this post we will... read more

Nov 2, 2020 Posted by newlife007

How To Use PowerShell to Export Scheduled Tasks

How To Use PowerShell to Export Scheduled Tasks Introduction We all know what a pain it is to have to recreate scheduled tasks on Windows when moving to new systems or restoring crash or corrupted systems. Making a backup of these tasks is always good to do, so why not do this with PowerShell and make things much simpler. The Code The script is fairly simple Define a new-object Connect to the object on... read more

Oct 15, 2019 Posted by newlife007

Use PowerShell to Get Drive List and Capacity

Use PowerShell to Get Drive List and Capacity Introduction Just a simple post with PowerShell. Had a bunch of Windows servers that needed to get a list of local drives and display the size of the drive and the freespace on the drives in GB. To achieve that decided to use Win32_LogicalDisk call in PowerShell. select a few of the available fields and do a little math. The Code What is Win32_LogicalDisk? The... read more